How are people using AI to help with everyday life?

Just trying to work out how the size of pinck’s garden and her husband’s salary are relevant to the conversation 😂

Exactly, it can come out with utter bollocks and people won't bother to fact check, they'll take it as granted "because AI told me."
My phone has started doing the whole "thinking" AI crap if you try googling something - it'll say "thinking" 🙄 and then gives you an answer..(doesn't seem to be a way to turn it off)
Sad thing is that people (probably those on here trying to justify their sending their thoughts to AI to "help me formulate what I want to say as I can't be bothered to do it myself" types) would just take it as gospel.
I googled for example "is this pub at the train station" and the AI confidently told me, yes it was and I knew full well that it was nowhere bloody near and the "facts" it was spouting was utter nonsense.
It's all very well making AI look stuff up for you and it regurgitating back at you what it's "read" online, but that will include mistakes as well. People are losing the ability to fact check and think for themselves.

It's good for generic things where the top answers are probably the ones you want, if you want something very specific or relatively new information, it can take a long time to guide it to what you are actually looking for and it often tells me I am wrong until it figures out I'm right. Non routine investments it can be very out of date suggesting things that failed years ago or look on their last legs to me. Generic recipes fine, financial advise or recent technical things keep well clear. It just churns out stuff that may be years out of date or not applicable.

Lol, I'm not trying to justify anything. You're the one who seems personally offended that other people know how to use technology. Look, AI isn't going anywhere, and refusing to adapt isn't the intellectual flex you seem to think it is. When the rest of the world has moved on and you're still sitting there congratulating yourself for doing everything the hard way, I'm sure that sense of intellectual superiority will come in handy. 💀

Keep on trying to justify yourself, that's what's pretty funny.

Okay, fine, let's use another example since the lawnmower comparison clearly went straight your head. My husband is a web developer who makes over $200k a year, and guess what? He uses AI at work. His company actually pays his subscription so what, Is he suddenly incapable of writing code or thinking for himself despite having done it for twenty years? Is his employer paying him that much money just to be lazy, or is it possible that intelligent, capable people use tools to save time and work more efficiently? Nobody is claiming writing an email and mowing a lawn require the same skills. The point is that being capable of doing something doesn't mean you have to do every part of it manually and he fact that you still can't grasp that distinction while questioning my intelligence is actually pretty funny.

In my case it's definitely not a case of can't be bothered. I work in a volume environment and AI has become essential to keep up with the workload. I can say to Copilot
Check all emails and files including reference 1234 and draft an email to the client with an update. Please also explain. X, y, z.
It turns a 20 minute job into a 1 minute job. Sadly I cannot spend 20 minutes on an email without falling behind. It's the world we're living in now.

"I'm perfectly capable of writing an email" - but yet can't be arsed to write it out yourself.
It's lazy, and it's not even comparable to mowing the lawn.
Communication is an invaluable asset to have, and you, yourself are not conversing as an actual human, you're getting a computer to do it for you.
It comes across as you can't write for yourself, or have your individual thoughts.
If you don't get that it's not the same as pushing a lawnmower around, it's a bit rich talking about intelligence levels in others.

I'm perfectly capable of writing an email, just as I'm perfectly capable of mowing my own 1.75 acre lawn but I pay someone else do do that for me because I have better things to do with my time. Does that mean I've forgotten how to operate a lawn mower or lack confidence in my grass-cutting abilities? 😂 People use tools and outsource tasks because it's convenient, not because they're incapable of doing them themselves, I just don't feel the need to spend twenty minutes typing an email or almost three hours mowing my lawn them out when when I can get AI or a lawn service to do it for me and frankly, if you're genuinely not intelligent enough to understand that distinction, all the email writing practice in the world isn't going to help you much but congratulations on composing your own emails. I'm sure it's a tremendous source of personal pride.

You treat the AI like an assistant. You tell it the gist and shape you want to communicate and it does the typing and language. You don't outsource your thinking, you outsource manufacturing the final product. No different to C-suite using their EA.

Many industries don't have a fixed output. They will get competetive advantage by delivering more for the same cost. In companies like that there is a huge backlog of "things that would give us an edge but we don't have time or people to do it" and they will use AI to move much more of those ideas into reality. It's happening already.

Yes they may reduce headcount and certainly people whose entire work purpose can be replaced by an AI will go, but mostly I think people in those type of industries will become mangers/directors of AI workers.

This. Studying for a degree should help you learn how to check and improve your work and critical thinking yourself. You are missing out on acquiring essential skills by using AI.

It's a pretty important skill to have - being able to formulate your own thoughts instead of having a computer "form them for you!"
Then writing something down like an email and pretending to be you.
Like you're trying to validate yourself, and not trusting your own judgement and need somebody else to think for you.
Your post is so depressing, people really are losing the ability or confidence to think for themselves without being "told" what to think, or being able to compose something by themselves, aren't they?!

Have you tried researching how AI impacts the planet? That's a good one for your "curious" brain.

It's scary for many people use it for stuff that is totally not needed. I would really recommend rather than using a tool to just turn your own brain on- it can really achieve amazing things on its own.

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This. It's really sad how people are just outsourcing their brains and some becoming unable to think for themselves.
It's also making things like social media unusable, as everyone's using the exact same bloody text, identical looking flyers, identical posts it's blatantly obvious they haven't written themselves and some writing exactly the same thing!
Creativity is being thrown away as people are too lazy to think for themselves anymore, and don't seem to have an ounce of individuality in their bodies.

Just as an example: in my work, it speeds up what would otherwise have taken multiple Google searches. And yes, I do double-check the facts, but it's an enormous timesaver.

Re telly, I just mean that it has a very homogenising effect on the way people think. Which is probably not such a bad thing - the quality of UK TV (compared with other countries) might explain why we don't have revolutions here 😁

I try to use it as little as possible. It’s a great tool for time-saving for some mundane tasks, but I worry about the effect on problem solving ability and creativity.

What different tasks do you need to focus your attention on? Companies no longer need as many staff due to AI so it can’t be making many people more productive elsewhere, or using those optical thinking skills. Tv is something usually done in leisure so is pretty irrelevant

I do think it would be good if you popped back OP! Otherwise your thread does look a bit like a market research exercise 😜

I can understand the despair from PPs who have to deal with long AI-generated emails all day, that must be maddening.

But AI can be used in so many ways, some of them extremely helpful, and it doesn't mean our brains are atrophying - just focused on different tasks. Watching telly is probably more damaging!

The generation of kids at school now will be popping themselves in care homes at 60 due to the early onset dementia as they aren’t using their brains properly anymore.

I don’t know why my post upset you so much but I’m sorry for that. I was just joining in the conversation; didn’t really expect to be laughed at.

Hope you have a good day.

It’s people using it all the time who will be left behind, as their brains turn to mush.

I’m not. I like using my brain and it’s quicker and easier for me to do things myself than ask a computer to do it for me and then check it.
Nothing I do in my life can be improved by a computer doing it for me.